From owner-freebsd-java Mon Feb 25 9:17:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr (puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr [139.124.41.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F5F37B400 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:17:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (hquiroz@localhost) by puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1PHOkT70556; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:24:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hquiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr) X-Authentication-Warning: puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr: hquiroz owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:24:46 +0100 (CET) From: Herve Quiroz To: Nate Williams Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd.java.mk and native jdk1.3.1p6 In-Reply-To: <15482.27689.514402.133071@caddis.yogotech.com> Message-ID: <20020225181523.E67358-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Sure, but hopefully (knock on wood) we will get a binary release of the > JDK out soon enough, such that regular users won't have to compile the > JDK at all. Sounds geek but I prefer compiling that installing binaries. But I agree most users will use the binary distribution available. > The reasons for not using Jikes is not a good idea (IMHO) is: > > 1) It requires alot of changes to the existing Makefile structure as > released from Sun. Maybe some awk/sed surgery... ;) > 2) Even if #1 is done, we would have to maintain these changes on our > own, and Sun has shown a propensity to radically change the build > environment between releases, such that the work would have to be > redone everytime a new release of the JDK was released. Maybe the #1 surgery could be (quite) easily preformed again with just some little modification. > A binary release would solve most of the user problems, so hopefully > that will happen soon. (And no, I don't know when it will happen.) Soon people all around the world will bow before the Java/FreeBSD alliance brandishing the HotSpot banner... but not before a 10+ hours of compiling :( Herv=E9 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message